One Person, One Vote: America's Ongoing Struggle with Our Most Basic Right

Autor/in	Holder, Eric H., Jr.
Titel	One Person, One Vote: America's Ongoing Struggle with Our Most Basic Right
Quelle	In: American Educator, 44 (2020) 3, S.14-18 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Civil Rights; Voting; Democracy; Elections; Court Litigation; Social Problems; Pandemics; COVID-19; Civil Rights Legislation; Federal Legislation; State Legislation; North Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Abstimmung; Demokratie; Election; Wahl; Rechtsstreit; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Bundesrecht; Landesrecht
Abstract	Over the past decade, the students of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, the largest historically Black public university in the country, were forced into the spotlight of a national fight over voting rights that has been profoundly reshaping our democracy. During the 2018 midterm elections, students on campus, the vast majority of whom are African American, were split into two separate congressional districts. Depending on which dorm students lived in, they either voted in the 6th Congressional District or the 13th Congressional District. Federal courts found that North Carolina's congressional map, which was drawn during the redistricting process in 2011, illegally diluted the voting power of people of color by a process known as "cracking" or "packing" voters. This article explores: (1) the redistricting that occurred in 2011; (2) the United States Supreme Court's disastrous "Shelby County" decision that enabled voter restrictions (which, under the author's direction, the United States Department of Justice opposed) in 2013; and (3) the US Supreme Court's decision in "Rucho v. Common Cause" that declared federal courts would play no role in policing partisan gerrymandering in 2019. A section titled "Election Integrity during the Pandemic" is included at the end of the article. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001. Tel: 202-879-4420; e-mail: ae@aft.org; Web site: http://www.aft.org/newspubs/periodicals/ae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01